1490 thru 1600
Spain's Golden Age, "Siglo de Oro" or, Golden Century, a period flourishing in the arts, where artists like El Greco infused Spanish art with the styles of the Italian Renaissance. Though undoubtedly Baroque in style, this was a profoundly realistic art, preferring a broad visual synthesis, with a predominance of pictorial over tactile values, to the analytical approach of sixteenth-century primitivism.